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What did they gain?
Still thinking in terms of Salesmanship and Sampling the Product and Test Drives. Since 2008 the Dems have been concentrating SOLELY on cultivating billionaires. They had a great product in Obama, but he ruined his own chances by approving TARP to enrich the billionaires. Hillary is a shitty product. Everyone knew it. Biden is even…
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Belated mystery
Listening to these Postal Service training films brings back a memory of a situation that I didn’t question at the time, but seems puzzling now. In 1978 I worked night shift for a quasi-private part of OU in Norman. This “business” ran two facilities on the OU campus. One was the Conference Center at the…
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Should have written here first
I wrote this as a comment on a silly pun seen elsewhere. Should have written it here first, since I asked the question a long time ago. Q: What’s the difference between harrowing and farrowing? A: One is sowing a seed, the other is seeding a sow.
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Motivation to get better
One commenter on the endless and unfortunately boring parade of drug overdoses hits the BIG point. Ya know I don’t believe anyone wants anyone to die…however most of us are sick of it. We give them no motivation to get better and provide more services then most of us hardworking folks can afford. Motivation to…
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Omission vs commission
The most effective propaganda is omissive, not commissive. Example: One of the tech-sponsored websites was trying to steer Americans away from Tiktok and Rednote. They highlighted some Americans who ran afoul of Chinese censors banning a thread that was pro-LGBTQA2ABCDEF. See? Red Communist Atheist Godless Marxist China is imprisoned, we are free! What’s omitted: Our…
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Wait for the dust
Trump has written some nice-sounding executive orders, pulling us out of the Paris Climate Hoax and the World Hitler Organization. He revoked the destructive “green” “new” “deal”, which is good, but he ALSO stopped the Biden admin’s quiet unadvertised restoration of some REAL New Deal policies by replacing Lina Khan. The latter action is real.**…
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High-quality joke
Fine joke from upjoke.com. A Baptist preacher sits next to a cowboy on a flight. After the plane takes off, the cowboy asks for a whiskey and soda, which is promptly brought and placed before him. The flight attendant then asks the preacher if he would like a drink. Appalled, the preacher replies, “I’d rather…
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No need to read Machiavelli.
Here’s the end goal of Mach’ian rulers, all wrapped up in one nice little sentence. Do not buy the $TRUMP coin/con. If it isn’t Bitcoin, it is a scam. Brand A scam says “avoid the Brand B scammers, stick with honest Brand A”. Brand B scam says “avoid the Brand A scammers, stick with honest…
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More anniversaries
Jan 20 is one of my anniversary dates. = = = = = PARTIAL REPRINT: When I got out of prison, my first experience with independent life was in this duplex in Stillwater. I restarted college on Jan 20, 1970. My Zenith Trans-Oceanic helped to pull me out of the walls and back into the…
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Same reason as before
Continued thought about Tiktok, Rednote, etc. As I noted yesterday, the net provides REAL opportunities for people in different countries to get to know each other. This has been happening for years, especially on video-oriented media like Youtube. It shouldn’t be a surprise that American and Chinese youngsters are meeting and talking and learning about…
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Satisfying metaphor
A dream this morning formed a metaphor. I had finished one piece of a courseware project … [this is true, not a metaphor] … and told the maid to send out the result. [THE MAID? WHERE DID SHE COME FROM? I’VE NEVER HAD A MAID!] Later I checked the mailbox and saw that the maid…
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Banning humanity
I got curious about the actual “law” involved in banning Tiktok. The Supremes decision starts with some facts that SHOULD make a normal person see why the ban is stupid and wildly counterproductive. = = = = = START QUOTE: TikTok is a social media platform that allows users to create, publish, view, share, and…
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Another notch down
Substack has descended another notch. Now it’s solely occupied by two types of people: (1) Bible quoters who think that a random passage of Begats is an urgent message with universal relevance. (2) Literary snobs who are mourning an actor (or something) named David Lynch. Judging by the picture they’re all using, Lynch’s talent was…
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Can’t sympathize
Taylor Lorenz is bitching that the Tiktok shutdown closes off an important channel for young Democrats. She cites impressive stats about Tiktok’s job share and economic contribution, and complains that the D billionaires aren’t helping to maintain a public voice on their side. Without any doubt the shutdown will destroy jobs, which is of course…
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Materials and Methods
Following on previous item that mentioned the primacy of MATERIALS and METHODS. I’ve hammered this subject repeatedly. Here’s one of the better hammers from 2014. = = = = = START 2014 REPRINT: Reading another stupid “study” on improving nutrition, it struck me that Portion and Serving are extremely peculiar units. They are new instances…
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